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Joe McElderry has called for independent aftercare teams to work on reality TV shows - and said there needs to be 'better protection.'
On Thursday, the former X Factor winner shared his thoughts on the singing competition with Bobby Norris and Stephen Leng on FUBAR Radio's Access All Areas, referring to the show as 'a hell of a machine and a formula.'
Of his 2009 appearance on the reality music contest, the singer said: 'I've said this in the past, I went through my own journey with the show - of kind of leaving the first management company and almost starting over again really about three years after I won the show.
Speaking out: Joe McElderry has called for independent aftercare teams to work on reality TV shows - and said there needs to be 'better protection' (pictured 2009)
'Kind of setting up everything in house and setting up a company, so that I had that creative control.'
Joe's experience on the show was predominantly positive, however he wasn't afraid to acknowledge some of its faults - and how reality show contestants can be better supported in the future.
He explained: 'I've said for many, many years that not just on X Factor, but on any reality TV show where you're plucking somebody from a relatively normal life of nothing to do with showbusiness, there has to be aftercare that is not a part of the actual TV show.
'It has to be separate people that don't have an interest in the financial benefits of that. If you have an aftercare team that work for the TV
